E 10 Authors Foreword

AUTHOR’S FOREWORD

GOD HAS been pleased to reveal every detail in the outworking of His plan beforehand by prophecy and type (Amos 3:7). Evidently, there should be in these two forms more details revealed as to the more than as to the less important seasons of His plan. Judging from the standpoint of this rule, the three most important seasons of His plan’s elective periods are the Jewish Harvest, the Parousia and the Epiphany; for decidedly more prophetical and typical Scriptures focus their light on each one of these three periods than upon any other elective periods of God’s counsel. When we consider the immense amount of prophecy and type that focused their light upon the person, character and offices of our Lord while He was in the flesh, upon the office and works of the Apostles and upon the condition and doings of God’s nominal people of the Jewish Harvest, we will readily recognize it as one of the most important seasons in God’s plan. Again, when we consider the immense number of prophetical and typical details relating to our Lord’s, Bro. Russell’s and certain of his supporters’ Parousiac ministries, to their opponents’ activities and to Satan’s empire in its preparation for overthrow, we must conclude that the Parousia is one of the most important periods of God’s plan. And, finally, when we consider the immense number of prophecies and types that relate to the actual overthrow of Satan’s empire by the World War, World Revolution, World Anarchy and by the last phase of Jacob’s Trouble, all four of these phases being mingled with famine and pestilence, Israel’s large scale return to Palestine and conversion to Christ, the development of two new elect classes of God’s people as such, the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies, as the Court of the Epiphany Tabernacle, and the formation of the Epiphany Camp, consisting of the loyal justified and the converted loyal Jews, we should conclude that it is one of the three main seasons of God’s plan...